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Best UK stocks of 2013

12/17/2013

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Continuing with my examination of the most profitable stocks of 2013 around the world, find below the UK list:

Ticker             Name                                                 Industry                                    Mkt. cap     YTD gain    Profit      Insider  Breakout
ABTX.L
MAR.L
BLUR.L
OCDO.L
THAL.L
QFI.L
TCG.L
SEE.L
XAR.L
THT.L
SOM.L
HHR.L
TCM.L
BLNX.L
STVG.L
GBO.L
GWP.L
WAND.L
OPAY.L
CLIN.L
KBC.L
TLDH.L
SOLG.L
RNO.L
PRES.L
MTEC.L
PHTM.L
TPT.L
POLR.L
MGR.L
Aqua Bounty Tech.
Mar City
Blur (Group)
Ocado Group
Thalassa Holdings Ltd.
Quadrise Fuels Int.
Thomas Cook Group
Seeing Machines Ltd.
Xaar
Thorntons
Somero Enterprises
Helphire Group
Telit Communications
Blinkx
STV Group
GLOBO
GW Pharmaceuticals
WANdisco
Optimal Pay
Clinigen Group
KBC Advanced Tech.
Top Level Domain Hldgs.
Solgold
Renold
Pressure Technologies
Matchtech Group
Photo-Me International
Topps Tiles
Polar Capital Holdings
Miton Group
Biotechnology
Construction
Computer services
Retail (Catalog)
Oil Services
Oil & Gas
Personal services
Computer services
Computer peripherals
Food processing
Machinery
Rental and Leasing
Communications
Internet media
Motion pictures
Software
Biotechnology
Software
Consumer Finance
Biotechnology
Software
Domain trading
Mining
Engineering
Engineering
Business services
Photography
Construction
Investment services
Investment services
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110M
133M
2521M
65M
378M
2378M
53M
844M
95M
57M
85M
174M
791M
120M
220M
292M
304M
493M
468M
68M
106M
50M
116M
51M
139M
539M
239M
403M
80M
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506%
500%
441%
417%
384%
375%
369%
285%
233%
233%
209%
205%
204%
202%
197%
197%
194%
183%
177%
174%
173%
166%
158%
147%
145%
143%
142%
141%
137%

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The yearly gains of the best UK stocks range from 137% (MGR) to 585% (ABTX), what is less than half of it's US counterparts. This can be attributed to the significant outperformance of US stocks during the last year, which returned around 25% compared to the 8% return of FTSE100. Nevertheless, there were some big gainers, especially among computer and internet stocks - BLUR, SEE, XAR, BLNX, GBO, WAND, KBC. In fact Blinkx (BLNX) is in my portfolio right now, as I still see a lot of upside potential in that stock. Doing the same research as for US stocks, I have come up with these results:

- All of the best stocks had a market cap of 800 million GBP or lower, before their advance
- Every single stock from the list reached new 52-week highs multiple times during the last year
- 70% (21) paid no dividend during the last year
- 66% (20) still have an institutional ownership of 80% or lower right now
- 56% (17) experienced sharp breakouts on significant volume, which started each uptrend 
- 50% (15) were bought by insiders before the biggest moves began
- 40% of companies were not profitable
- Of the best 5 UK stocks of 2013, only two were profitable, one was bought by insiders and all had broken out of their bases on strong volume before scoring large gains

Comparing these results to the US list, we can conclude so far that: 
1. The best stocks are usually small caps, with market cap under 1 billion USD
2. The majority do not pay dividends
3. Institutional ownership is very low
4. More often than not, these stocks experience sharp breakouts to the upside, which start their advance
5. Top 5 stocks are generally profitable and are not bought by insiders

Again the common trait that all these stocks share is the reaching of new highs many times during their advance. It looks as the UK stocks are less speculative, given that 60% of them earned a profit during the past year compared to only 36% in US. Buying into an uptrend works in UK just like in the US, many of these stocks are still trading at or near their 52-week highs now. I will follow up with similar lists for Hong Kong and Indian stocks to see if the same patterns emerge. Meanwhile, check out the best UK stocks to buy now.
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